See you at ICRA 2010!

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 17:05

We've finished packing up our robots, and we're headed north to Anchorage! Below, you'll find a complete list of Willow Garage-related talks, workshops and tutorials. Many of these events were organized in collaboration with other institutions. Drop on by if you see a topic that strikes your fancy. We'll also be camped out at our booth, and we hope to see you there!

This talk will take place on Tuesday, May 4 (from 8:30 to 8:45 am) in the Egan Center Lower Level, Room 9/10.

Projected Texture Stereo
at the Range Sensing session on Tuesday morning. Kurt Konolige will discuss the
development of a practical stereo projector system with excellent depth
precision and resolution, especially in the range out to 1.5m.

This talk will take place on Tuesday, May 4 (from 9:45 to 10:00 am) in the Egan Center Lower Level, Room 1.

The Office Marathon: Robust Navigation in an Indoor Office Environment
at the Autonomous Nagivation session. Eitan Marder-Eppstein will discuss our second
Milestone, during which the PR2 navigated autonomously for 26.2 miles
in a real office environment. Eitan will present the methods required
to achieve this level of robustness,
including an efficient Voxel-based 3D mapping algorithm that explicitly
models unknown space.

This talk will take place on Tuesday, May 4 (from 9:15 to 9:30 am) in the Egan Center Street Level, Room Cook Hall.

This talk will take place on Tuesday, May 4 (from 6:45 to 7:00 pm) in the Egan Center Lower Level, Room 13/14.

Wednesday, May 5 Events:

Tactile Object Class and Internal State Recognition for Mobile Manipulationat the Haptics and Human Augmentation session. The authors propose a hybrid velocity-force controller, that grasps an object
safely and reveals at the same time its deformation properties. As an
application, they show that a robot can use these features to distinguish
the open/closed and fill state of bottles and cans -- purely from
tactile sensing -- from a small training set.

This talk will take place on Wednesday, May 5 (from 9:00 to 9:15 am) in the Egan Center Lower Level, Room 2.

This talk will take place on Wednesday, May 5 (from 3:35 to 3:50 pm) in the Egan Center Lower Level, Room 13/14.

Thursday, May 6 Events:

User-Controlled Variable Impedence Teleoperationat the Teleoperation with Haptics session. The authors, from Stanford University and Willow Garage, propose a telerobotic architecture with user-controlled variable
impedance and show a single degree of freedom experimental
implementation.

This talk will take place on Wednesday, May 6 (from 6:15 to 6:30 pm) in the Egan Center Street Level, Room Cook Hall.

Friday, May 7 Events:

Workshop on Mobile
Manipulation, organized by
Patrick Pfaff, Wolfram Burgard, Kris Hauser, Sachin Chitta, and Oliver
Brock. This workshop will discuss the state of the art of
mobile manipulation research. Willow Garage's Kaijen Hsiao, Matei Ciocarlie, Gil Jones, and Sachin Chitta will be among the participants,
presenting "Contact-Reactive Grasping of
Objects with Partial Shape Information."

The full-day workshop will take place on Friday, May 7 (9:00 am-12:30 pm and 2:00 pm-5:30 pm) in the Dena'ina Center, Tubughnenq' 3.